OF THE

LIFE AND WRITINGS

OF

WILLIAM HAYLEY, ESQ.

THE FRIEND AND BIOGRAPHER OF

COWPER,

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

WITH EXTRACTS FROM HIS

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

AND UNPUBLISHED POETRY.

AND

MEMOIRS OF HIS SON

THOMAS ALPHONSO HAYLEY,

THE YOUNG SCULPTOR.

EDITED BY JOHN JOHNSON, LL.D.

RECTOR OF YAXHAM WITH WELBORNE, IN NORFOLK.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR HENRY COLBURN AND CO. CONDUIT-STREET, AND SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL, STATIONERS-HALL-COURT.

1823.

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

BOOK THE EIGHTH.

PART THE SECOND.

FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR 1798, TO THE DEATH OF

THOMAS HAYLEY, IN 1800.

CHAPTER I.

Brief notice of incidents and compositions in the year 1798

BOOK THE NINTH.

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THE OCCUPATIONS OF HAYLEY DURING THE FIRST EIGHT YEARS

AFTER THE LOSS OF HIS SON.

CHAPTER I.

Incidents and compositions from the death of the young artist, to the end

of 1800.

CHAPTER II.

Incidents and compositions from the commencement of the year 1801, to the

publication of Cowper's Life.

CHAPTER III.

New literary occupations of Hayley after he had ended his Life of Cowper,

and various occurrences to the autumn of 1808

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BOOK THE TENTH.

CHAPTER I.

New prospects-The second marriage of the poet

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Continuation-Letters principally relating to Mr. Cowper, and to the author's
son, from 1796 to 1800

CHAPTER IV.

Letters and extracts relating to the Life of Cowper, &c. from 1800 to 1805

CHAPTER V.

Letters on various subjects, from 1807 to 1819.

CHAPTER VI.

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Conclusion-Last illness and death of Hayley-His character, &c.

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MEMOIRS OF THOMAS ALPHONSO HAYLEY,

THE YOUNG SCULPTOR.

PART THE FIRST, extending to the fifth of October, 1793

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